Global Justice and Neoliberal Environmental Governance: Ethics, Sustainable Development and International Co-Operation (Environmental Politics) - Hardcover

Okereke, Chukwumerije

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415412307 ISBN 13: 9780415412308

Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

This book is an ethical critique of existing approaches to sustainable development and international environmental cooperation, providing a detailed and structured account of the tensions, normative shifts and contradictions that currently characterize it.

With specific focus on three environmental regimes, the volume explores the way various notions of justice feature both implicitly and explicitly in the design of global environmental policies. In so doing, the dominant conceptions of justice that underpin key global environmental policies are identified and criticised on the basis of their compatibility with the normative essence of global sustainable development.

Global Justice and Neoliberal Environmental Governance demonstrates that whilst moral norms inflict far greater impact in regime development than is currently acknowledged by orthodox approaches to regime analysis, the core polices remain rooted in two neo-liberal interpretations of justice which undermine the ability to achieve sustainable development and international justice.

It will appeal to students and scholars of politics, philosophy, international relations, geography and law.

About this title

About the Author:

Chukwumerije Okereke is a Senior Research Associate at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia, UK.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0415412307
• ISBN 13: 9780415412308
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240